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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Sunday Morning Bonus Pulp: The Green Ghost Detective, Spring 1941

I've read several of the mystery novels featuring magician/detective George Chance that were published in this pulp, and they're pretty good, as you'd expect from author G.T. Fleming-Roberts, who contributed some excellent Secret Agent X novels earlier in his career. This issue also features stories by Hugh B. Cave and Ray Cummings, so it must have been a pretty good one.

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It's been a long time since I read this series, but I remember it fondly. This particular story was one of the best. The mystery was about a comic book or comic strip writer, who writes about a bird-like monster (I believe), and supposedly he's killed by the very creature he created. But Fleming-Roberts had a way of bringing in deep secrets and twists to his stories, that go far from the surface of the crime.

I don't actually have this issue, Sean, just scavenged the image off the great Fictionmags Index. I haven't read that much by Cummings, but I've enjoyed what I have read. Don't recall Wandl the Invader. I'll have to go see if I can find a picture of the cover somewhere.